Micah 4:4-7

4:4 Each will sit under his own grapevine

or under his own fig tree without any fear. ¹ 

The Lord who commands armies has decreed it. ² 

4:5 Though all the nations follow their respective gods, ³ 

we will follow ⁴  the Lord our God forever.

Restoration Will Follow Crisis

4:6 “In that day,” says the Lord, “I will gather the lame,

and assemble the outcasts whom I injured. ⁵ 

4:7 I will transform the lame into the nucleus of a new nation, ⁶ 

and those far off ⁷  into a mighty nation.

The Lord will reign over them on Mount Zion,

from that day forward and forevermore.” ⁸ 

[4:4]  ¹ tn Heb “and there will be no one making [him] afraid.”

[4:4]  ² tn Heb “for the mouth of the Lord of Hosts has spoken.”

[4:5]  ³ tn Heb “walk each in the name of his god.” The term “name” here has the idea of “authority.” To “walk in the name” of a god is to recognize the god’s authority as binding over one’s life.

[4:5]  ⁴ tn Heb “walk in the name of.”

[4:6]  ⁵ sn The exiles of the nation are compared to lame and injured sheep.

[4:7]  ⁶ tn Heb “make the lame into a remnant.”

[4:7]  ⁷ tn The precise meaning of this difficult form is uncertain. The present translation assumes the form is a Niphal participle of an otherwise unattested denominative verb הָלָא (hala’, “to be far off”; see BDB 229 s.v.), but attractive emendations include הַנַּחֲלָה (hannakhalah, “the sick one[s]”) from חָלָה (khalah) and הַנִּלְאָה (hannil’ah, “the weary one[s]”) from לָאָה (la’ah).

[4:7]  ⁸ tn Heb “from now until forever.”